Motorsports videos

 Canadian TV coverage of the 1988 CART race in Toronto.

David Sabre wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWPANb8sHU

And to think it would take them another 10 years before the FIA made them install barriers.

For those who still fancied racing at a 200 kph average on a track without virtually any safety precautions, we still had the longer version of Chimay which lasted until the 90s. One barrier along the start finish straight and lots of barbed wire fencing, ditches, houses, trees and a big drop onto a railway line running underneath some parts of the track. I attended the last race on that track in 1992 which was stopped following a horrible fatal accident.



The reason for using such circuits was "bring the cars to the crowds" and "don't do a full championship on just Spa and Zolder".

So there was the odd destruction derby on the streets in the heart of Brussels, or around a cattle market parking lot.



And finally, a proper track.

NBC coverage of the 1988 Toronto CART race -- with Sir Jackie as the color commentator

getting in the mood slowly guys for the upcomming Estoril 91 event

2 full movies to go

Something to get everyone in the mood for Estoril

1982 WEC in Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxohv0En_xU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9BNWoI6yRA&list=PL59CB4104D3F3BB30&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgoBP76A8t8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujcvrg-OlMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMQGD_oDaug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBQUBBx0GyA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muvh0YHDhPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmDOBSO1mg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GAvfOVw8tI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFijzN4I7jA

The classic F1 documentary "The Quick and the Dead" is available on Amazon Prime

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_17?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+formula+one+drivers+aka+the+quick+and+the+dead&sprefix=the+formula+one+d%2Caps%2C159&crid=35WTXUET476TG

https://youtu.be/ZAIJxXFke7Q

Just Italian, but great interwiev,

Some beautiful on board from a Lowenbrau Porsche 962

https://vimeo.com/241623697

beautiful thanks

F3000 race of 1991. Vincenzo Sospiri crashing into Damon Hill while being lapped because he didn't get the teams Reynard.

Looks like I need to rearrange my seating position a bit. I backed it off slightly from the realistic position, thinking I was a bit too high up in the car and a bit to close to the wheel. Didn't realize exactly how different the structure of the car was.

From the angle of much of this footage, you're really packed in that puppy :O
Obviously, the angle of the footage plays a role here, but dang, pretty tight in there.
...almost triggers a bit of claustrophobia (that I don't even have...lol)

This is the 1989 car designed by a certain Adrian Newey, the March's of that time were known to be very very cramped. Something Newey wanted to minimise drag and make the car more aerodynamic.

The 91 car, was more driver friendly comfort wise.

Noticed that after I commented.
Tried, briefly, to find a bit of 91 footage but came up empty. Youtube seemed pretty shy of such footage, but I only tried one search as I'm about to head out for work and didn't have the time.

Sort of comical, in a way. The amount of time and effort I spend trying to make my cockpit nice and comfy...and here they were in the real world like "here's your car, shut up and drive it"...."oh, it's cramped you say? Suck it up buttercup!".....lol

So I guess if I want true to life simulation, I should just find the most cramped, uncomfortable position I can imagine, throw some crap over top of me only inches from hands, squeeze my legs together, and grin and bear it. Seems a better representation of the truth, at times.

Hard to imagine having to manhandle one of these things in those tight quarters. And the bad habit I've developed of "one handing" the cars at times just wouldn't work a bit in that thing.